Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-10-14

Christian way Tor 80 years, divided on
question which was deemed to involve
questions as deep as those which are pre-
sented to us to day; and yet the board
never raised the question in the eXanina-
ton of any candidate, but sent indffer-
emily the representatives, of the schools of
Tyler and Taylor to preach the common
gospel to the heather world. We have in
that a conspicuous example and lllustrd-
tion of the position which should charac-
terize us to day.
DIR M'KENzlE's REMARKS.
Rev. Dr. Mckenzie of Cambridge said (:
There is one painful sentence in the re-
port of the home secretary. 1t is that in
which the secretary says that the'past
year has been in the missionary rooms a
pleasant one. 1t has been anything but
pleasant to some of us outside. 1t has not
been pleasant to find the counsel and spir-
1t of the president of this board ignored
and himself set aside. 1t has not been
pleasant to fluid the man who had stood
at the financial helm of this board so long
aud had presided over its cOuncils, Obliged
to 90 out by a decent self-respect and
dying under the sense of injury. 1t has
not been pleasant to find as good young
men and women as we have set aside
from this missionary work, and b-eA1ng
ment to their homes. 1t has not been
pleasant to find this board spending in
the last year 100000 more than it has re-
ceived, with only one year mora and
little over in which it can draw from these
requests, aud after that-what : These
are not pleasant considerations. If they
have been pleasant within the board !
can only feel that their elements of hAppi-
DeSs differ from ours without.
Every man who has been rejected has
been rejected, not upon the doctrine of the
moral law, the prevalence of the moral
law, or the historic Christ, or the
essential Christ, or the view of in
SEPARATION or anything else. Every man
who has been rejected has said, 81
VIII preach every doctrine of the EOS
pei, every positive doctrine you claim 10
be III the gospel, and | will DO eveys ttu ing
to every soul in the world" The COM
mittee say "No, stand aside. Unless
You are satisfied that you know what God
proposes to do for those who are without
ana who will never hear this word which
the Christian church is striving so late, to
give, unless you know everything about
tnat, you are not competent to preach the
gospel to the heather.
On you say, there are dangerous tenden-
cies. Well, there is not doctrine OF the
gospel that does not have dangerous ten
denotes. suppose there are men who
have preached that Christ died for
them" eff Christ died for me-" they
said, Il have no more to do, -
and yet the doctrine is true. There may
be some of you who once preached
the doctrines of election and reproba-
ton, and then some said: "lf men are
to be saved | will be saved, if men are TO
TO be lost | shall be lost" | suppose
there have been men who have been lost
because Jesus taught the parable of the
prodigal son. They said; There is
nothing for me to do; | have only 20 20
back TO the fathers house, | suppose
there have been souls lost because Jesus
said to the pentent thief: "Ths day thou
shalt be With me i'll paradise" So men
said, 81 will wait until am dying" But
Jesus said it. He ran the risk.
The Tendencies" of the new theology
toward Cnltarianism are cited. Why,
every tendency in that Unitarian discus
sion was the reverse of anything we see
| here. Unitarianism minimized every
thing. This new theology eularges every
thing; Cnitarianism made less of Christ
and the Bible; this makes more. Unitar-
| lanlsm made less OF character, less OF duty;
this makes more. Cnltarianism made
less OF punishment this makes more of
! punishment and every doctrine of the
| faith. 1t stands as far apart from Unitar-
| ianlsm aud from the tendencies and re-
suits which followed from it, as the ten
! dency Of the light is from the tendency of
darkness.
lam going back to my home to morrow,
| and IN Sunday or two we are to take up
a collection for this American board. My
| people know that | am asking them to
| give their money to Il society which, if
offered myself as candidate, would spurI
| me from their doors. | am not Il new
departure" man. am not any departure
man. / hold by the Old gospel and the
whole Of it,. But these brethren of the
prudential committee would not let me
90, II were young enough to 20 ; they
would not let my brother Gordon go
| There Is not Il pastor IN church in oil !
Boston to-day, with possibly one eXcep
ton, who could 20. Il ask why the time
has not come when we may say, what i,
good enough for the churches ut home i,
good enough for the churches abroad, and
when men shall I've judged by their pos
session of the gOspel-itS words and IL
spirit and if they are found willing tt
teach it in an unselfish love, they shall b,
allowed to teach it.
DR.. Boardman said something about ice
bergS. | happened to be crossing til,
ocean few weeks ago, and Captain Dut
ton OF the Cunard line talked 10 me about
icebergs. lie said 81 was called from
my berth one night by the first officer
who said there was an iceberg in sight
went with him on the bridge, and ! saw
such an iceberg rs had never seen before
: Il lifted up its immense head, gitterng il
the light of the evening, q magnificent
SIGHT. We admired it toge her and w
. thought how terrible it would have beel
{ If the ship had come upon that iceberg il
b the dark and had been sunk But Will
| we looked upon it the steamer moved, "
: changed the angle at which we saw tn
a iceberg, and it dissolved before our eye
5 into nothing bur bank of cloud,
| fprmless spectacle Of the evenin
: light and not a dreary iceberg !
e DR.. Boardman's iceberg have no dnub
# seems very real 10 IN my; (Lhree-tJurth
d oft | believe is under water > but yo
d will presently change Your angle of vision
4 aud it will be sren to be nothing but
e mass of vnpor with the light from tn
/ heavens shining upon it. BY and by yo
l. VIII c.ise TO be afraid of it, and YOU wi